Bleecker Street & Grandview Avenue

Bleecker Street and Grandview Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in Ridgewood, Queens. Between 2021 and 2025, five police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of three crashes for a Queens corner. Grover Cleveland Playground is 1,090 feet away. The nearest subway, Forest Av, is about nine minutes on foot, for the M. Within a five-minute walk are six public places, two of them religious buildings, and 12 places to eat. About 1,700 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 1915 and 1927, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses.

Safety record
2 hurt
5 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Forest Av
0.4 miles · 9 min on foot · M
Nearest bus stop
860 feet
Forest Av/Bleecker St · Q14, Q39
Within a walk
6 places
2 religious buildings, 2 schools and 2 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Bleecker Street & Grandview Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Forest Av, 0.4 miles from this corner, about nine minutes on foot.

  1. Forest Av M
    0.4 miles
    M

Next trains at this station

Inbound
1 line
  1. M …
Middle Village
1 line
  1. M …

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Dom (Variations)” (2013) by Laura F. Gibellini at the Forest Av station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Forest Av/Bleecker St, 860 feet away, for the Q14 and Q39.

  • 15 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Forest Av/Bleecker St Q14, Q39
    860 feet
    Q14 Q39

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q14 …
  2. Q39 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 2 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Greene Ave & Grandview Ave 17 docks in all
    300 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Long Island Expressway eastbound at Borden Avenue & 60th Street, 1.6 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 60-04 Metropolitan Avenue Gas station
    0.4 miles
  2. 1510 Gates Avenue Charging for electric cars, four Level 2 chargers
    1 mile
  3. 66-26 Metropolitan Avenue Fast charging for electric cars
    1.1 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported five crashes at this corner, more than the median of three crashes for a Queens corner.

  • 2 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 2 of those hurt, on foot

The most recent crash recorded here was in December 2023.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11385
Community board
Queens Community Board 5
City Council district
30
Police precinct
104
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Ridgewood
Elevation
111 feet above sea level

The streets

  • One travel lane
  • Two of the streets are one-way

Homes

About 1,700 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1915 and 1927.

Trees

NYC Parks records 55 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 26 signs on these blocks
  • 6 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between August 2021 and April 2022, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Bleecker Street

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 8:30AM-10AM

South side of Bleecker Street

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 11AM-12:30PM

East side of Grandview Avenue

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 8:30AM-10AM

West side of Grandview Avenue

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 8:30AM-10AM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Six public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 2 religious buildings
  • 2 schools
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 playground

Schools and child care

  1. P.S. 071 Forest School
    1,130 feet
  2. Grover Cleveland High School
    1,280 feet
  3. Wbees Forest House Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,280 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Grover Cleveland Playground
    1,090 feet

Supermarkets

  1. City Fresh Market Supermarket
    390 feet
  2. CTown Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 12 places to eat and ten food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a bike route here or a bicycle rack within 820 feet, a signal or safety change and a designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 14 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Bleecker Street or Grandview Avenue.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, MTA, NYC DOT, New York City's bike-share system, NYS Environmental Conservation, NYC City Planning, US Department of Energy, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.